Schools pay nothing to join the MHSAA or to enter MHSAA tournaments. Their obligations are not financial but administrative; and their opportunities are many . . .
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Thinking on this event reminds me of what so often happens in so many places in this wonderful world of school sports.
In spite of everything that bothers us and batters us, school sports is still the best brand of youth sports in America . . . We still have what most kids and parents want in youth sports.
I’m an idealist. That’s why I chose to work on this level of sports and not some other level; why I work in sports and not some other field.
. . . we can sometimes learn most by looking furthest from our own type of organization
Here’s an editorial I penned but withheld from publishing in August of 2006. Four years of waiting and watching have only made me more convinced of what it says . . .
It is necessary to remind all who are involved with football programs on the local level to continue to be vigilant in the pursuit of a risk-free environment for students.
. . . participation in MHSAA tournament sports topped 300,000 for the sixth consecutive year; and that while enrollments of MHSAA member schools dropped 2.7 percent for the past year, participation slipped only 0.8 percent.
From the Director is the official MHSAA Blog which will touch on pertinent school sports topics periodically throughout the school year from various MHSAA Staff.